[narrator] Sixteen celebrities \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhave enlisted \h\hin real military training.
\h\h\h\h\hTen days to prove \h\h\h\h\h\hthey can endure physically and emotionally.
\h\h\h\h\hNo prizes, no special treatment.
This is Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] A week into the course...
[yells]
\h\h\h\h\h...ten recruits have handed in their armbands.
I just don’t wanna get hurt.
-You sure about that? \h\h\h-I am, sir.
I can’t do it.
[narrator] Now only six remain.
\h\h-But who... -[Billy] Stop!
...will survive the day?
[Rudy] You need to switch on, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNumber 8.
[Billy] Keep it coming.
You muppet! Catastrophic fail!
\h\h\h\h-Number 8. -She suffered the most.
Disappointing, to be honest.
Get your hand off there now! \h\h\h\hGet up straight! Now!
-That is a fail. \h\h-Yes, staff.
\h\h\h\h\hDon’t look at me like I took your teddy bear off you.
\h\h\h\h\hFacing failure and your own weaknesses,
it’s a hard pill to swallow.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-[Rudy] Go! -[Mike] Do I still have it?
-Do I still have that fire? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Fight!
Is the eye of the tiger \h\h\h\h\hstill there?
[thunder rumbles]
[Mike] What the...?
That’s the year’s rainfall. Hey, happy Sunday, everyone.
-God bless you guys. -[all] Happy Sunday.
♪ Amazing Grace...
\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] Recruits have reached
the seventh day of selection.
But this will be no day of rest.
\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m busting my ass and doing what I’m told and...
\h\hAnd I’m, like, capable of passing the tasks. Why am I not?
\h\h\h[narrator] Number 8, soccer player Carli Lloyd,
has so far failed more tasks \h\h\h\h\hthan she’s passed.
\h\hJust don’t give up. Don’t give up on yourself.
I need a pass. I just have to get my confidence up. Yeah.
On the parade square with all your gear.
[Gus] Let’s go, guys. Hurry up.
We’ve been watching you.
All of you have attributes that need to be worked on.
This phase is about resilience.
\hWe sweat more in training so we bleed less in combat.
In the special operations \h\h\h\h\h\hcommunity,
\h\h\h\h\hwe develop resilience by extreme realistic training.
It is our duty to prepare you
\h\h\hin the most realistic, most effective way possible,
and that’s by pushing you \h\hto the edge and beyond.
\h-Am I understood? -[recruits] Yes, staff!
We’re at the point in training
where we’re increasing \h\h\h\hour standards.
This is not just about surviving another day.
There will be more honor \h\h\h\h\h\hin you VWing
because you can’t perform \h\h\hat the proper standard
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthan for you to just try to drag it out.
\h-Do you understand? -[recruits] Yes, staff!
\h\h\h\h-Billy. -Disappear. Go.
[Rudy] Move with a purpose!
Recruit 4, she has asthma.
With your blessing,
I think we should remove her \h\h\hfrom the situation.
My concern is we could provoke a life-threatening asthma attack.
We can test her in another way.
[narrator] This morning the recruits will face
\h\h\h\hthe brutal reality of the modern battlefield,
\h\h\h\h\htaking part in an essential drill
that all soldiers must endure.
Chemical warfare is real.
[Dwight] Holy [bleep].
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBecause of that, we as special forces operators
have to be prepared for it.
\hEach of us DS has gone through what you’re about to go through.
[Mike] Oh, my God.
\h\h[narrator] Recruits must carry out a punishing mission
\h\h\h\hto retrieve kit from inside a container
filled with poisonous tear gas.
[Remi] Your bodies will tell you to run,
but you must use your minds \hto block out every urge,
block out the pain, \h\h\hand stand firm.
\h\hIt’s keeping it together when you’re in the middle of a storm.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd believe me, you will face a storm in there.
\h\h\h\h-Any questions? -[recruits] No, staff.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right, start getting geared up.
\hYour protective gear has your numbers on it.
-Hurry up. Let’s go. \h\h\h\h\h-Yes, sir.
[Gus]
-Number 4. \h\h\h-Yes.
You will not be doing \h\h\hthis evolution
\h\h\h\hbecause of your medical condition.
Yes, staff.
[Remi] Everyone has physical limitations.
There’s no easy way out of selection.
Even if you get a pass,
we’ll still find a way \h\h\hto make you pay.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJust like your team’s gonna suffer,
you’re gonna have to suffer \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin some way.
-Yes, staff. -All right?
\h\h\h[Hannah] From, like, a young age, I had asthma.
If I can’t breathe, I start panicking,
and then I think I’m gonna die.
[Mike]
[Rudy] Gassing is a way \h\h\h\h\hto test grit.
\hWill the recruits control their breathing,
follow instructions and do whatever it takes to get out?
[Remi] 13, on me.
Yeah. Let’s go.
[narrator] First to find out \h\h\h\h\h\hwhether his body
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcan withstand the brutal effects of gassing,
NBA All-Star Dwight Howard.
[Dwight] How high is my pain tolerance?
\h\h\hI would say about pregnancy high.
I’ve had two back surgeries.
I had to play this way.
Those are the two times in life where I wanted to say,
"I can’t take this pain no more. I gotta leave this earth."
-On me, 13. -Yes, staff.
\hYou’re about to have a taste of what it was like to invade Iraq.
When you receive the command,
\h\h\h\hyou will go inside and shut the door behind you.
You will locate the medical bag.
\h\h\h\h\h\hYou will look for an alternative exit.
\hDS Billy is inside. You will receive instructions from him.
Don your gas mask.
During the invasion of Iraq, \h\h\hwe had to assume...
With me!
...Saddam Hussein had gas \h\hand chemical weapons.
Gas, gas, gas!
\h\h\hSo every time we were engaged...
[Billy] Stand here \h\hin front of me.
\h\h\h...we must be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
Take off your respirator. \h\h\hTake off your mask.
Do that now.
\h\h\h\h\h-[groans] -Give me your name.
[coughs] Dwight. Dwight Howard.
[coughs]
What’s your number?
13. [coughs] 13.
\h\h\h\h\h-13? -Yeah. [coughs]
-What’s your mission? -To get out of here.
Get the medical equipment.
Go and find the equipment
and find your way out.
-Find it. -[coughs]
Find something!
\h\h\h\h\h-[coughs] -[Rudy] Take the pain.
[groans]
-[Rudy] Stand up! \h\h\h\h\h-[coughs]
\h\h\h\h-[coughs] -Face into the wind.
Pass!
[Billy] To go through chemical warfare training is petrifying.
\hMake ’em feel like they’ve been strangled.
Your blood is pumping. Your brain is pounding.
\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s like being painfully drowned.
[groans]
Number 13 is in the hurt locker.
[spits]
\h\h\h\h-[groans] -Collected yourself?
\h-Yes, staff. -Grab your kit.
Head to the decon zone. Hustle!
Do you want some of my water?
-Holy [bleep]. \h-My gosh.
-What? My eyes? -Your eyes.
-They red? \h\h\h-Yes.
It’s burning like [bleep].
I’m nervous ’cause I know \h\h\hit’s gonna hurt,
\h\h\h\h\h\hand I’m used to pain, but I feel like this is gonna be
a different pain that I’ve never felt.
\hYou have no idea how you’re gonna react.
Number 5, on me.
[narrator] The oldest recruit \h\h\h\hleft on the course...
[Remi] Run!
...former baseball star \h\h\h\h\hMike Piazza,
\his next to brave the gassing drill.
Pick up the pace!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Mike] I’m just most concerned about
\h\h\h\h\h\hif my body can still take the abuse.
If the crane can’t pick up the \hweight, it’s gonna fall over.
[Rudy] On me, Five.
Gas, gas, gas!
[Billy] Stand right there. \h\h\h\hStand right there.
Take off your respirator. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDo that now.
[coughs]
[groans]
-State your full name. -Michael Joseph Piazza.
Michael Joseph Piazza. \h\hOK, I’ve got that.
\h\h\h\h-Yes, staff. -What’s your number?
My number’s five, sir.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-[coughs] -Stop panicking, stop panicking.
You were given a mission \hout there, right?
\h[coughs] The med... medical bag and the alt... alternative exit.
\h\h\h\h\h\hOK, well, go do that. Do that now. Have a look around.
You’ve gotta search for it. \h\h\h\hYou’ve gotta find it.
Find it. It doesn’t show itself.
\h\h\h-I got it, sir. -What you gonna do?
-How you gonna get out? \h-There’s an exit.
It’s blocked!
[narrator] In a container \h\h\hfilled with tear gas,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNumber 5, MLB Hall Of Famer Mike Piazza...
can’t find the right way out.
[Rudy] Keep your face \h\h\hinto the wind.
Welcome to CS gas.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCrazy Stanley, as we say in the Marine Corps.
Where’s the medical bag, Five?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Stay here. -[sighs] I dropped it, sir.
-Big, fat fail! \h\h-Uh-huh.
Battlefield conditions \hare no [bleep] joke.
Let’s go.
[Remi] Number 5, fail.
\h\h\h\h\hThat’s suffering, that’s what that is. Suffering.
-That was pretty tough, man. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-[groans]
\h-I fell down. -You fell down?
I went down like soft [bleep] \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the rain.
\h\h\h\h\hIf you had asthma, that might stop your ticker.
\h\h\h-Yeah. -Oh, man.
I feel like I’ve been slapped \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the face
by a thousand straps.
-[Dwight] That [bleep] is crazy. -[Mike] You know that?
That [bleep] is sick, \h\h\hain’t it? Hoo!
\h\h\h\hAnd you tried to go out the back.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah. -I jumped out right there.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-That window. -There’s a window there?
-You see it? \h\h\h-Oh...
\h\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] After one pass and one fail,
the remaining three recruits
prepare for the onslaught \h\h\h\h\h\h\hof CS gas.
On me, 16!
\h\h[Danny] Going into a hostile environment,
you gotta focus on your job.
When you receive the command \h\h\h\h\h\h"Gas, gas, gas,"
you will don your gas mask.
Focus on the task at hand, \h\h\h\h\h\hon the mission.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou go inside, you’re to locate a medical pack.
\h\h\h\h\h\hThen you will find an alternative way to get out.
\h\h\h\hI feel like, given the opportunity, I will not break.
\h\h\h\h\h\hGas, gas, gas! Quickly, quickly, quickly.
Zip it up! Go, go, go!
\h\h\h\hTake off your hood and take off your respirator.
Place it onto your arm. \hOK, what’s your name?
\h\h-Danny. -Danny...?
-Danny what? \h-Amendola.
-What’s your number? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-16.
What’s your mission?
-To finish. -To finish what?
\h-Locate the medical bag. -Go and find the equipment.
\h\h\hIt’s in here somewhere. You’re gonna have to search.
Find a way out!
\h-[grunts] -[Rudy] Pass!
On my heels. Let’s go.
If I encounter something \h\hthat frightens me...
You’re about to face CS gas.
-Keep a cool head. \h\h\h-Yes, staff.
...I can’t imagine myself \h\h\hfolding or crumbling.
Gas, gas, gas!
[coughs]
\h-What’s your name? -Gus, staff. Number 10.
You were given a mission \hout there, right?
-To get the medical bag, staff. -And do what?
\h\h\hGet it in my possession and find an alternative exit.
Search.
\h-[gasps] -[Rudy] Pass!
-Stand up! Face the wind! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-[coughs]
Stand up! Take the pain!
Get a grip of yourself.
\h\h\h\h\hTurn around. Fall in on your cohort.
\h\h\h\h\h-[Gus coughs] -That was really tough.
You know how we do washing the clothes
and we have to get all the... \h\h\h\hthe wetness out?
I felt that was happening \h\h\h\hto my [bleep] lungs.
I’ve broken my femur, bro, \h\hI’ve broken my tib fib,
I’ve broken ribs.
That was the most painful \h\h\h[bleep] I’ve ever had.
It’s like getting deep-fried.
\h\h\hNumber 8, on me. The last of the Mohicans.
[narrator] Carli Lloyd, a former soccer World Player of the Year
used to success,
\his aiming to reverse a run of failed tasks.
You cannot become complacent.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hEvery day you’re trying to prove yourself.
It’s the pressure cooker.
It doesn’t get any harder \h\h\h\h\h\hthan that.
Gas, gas, gas!
\h\h\hStand right there, take off your respirator
\h\h\h\hand place it onto your right arm.
-Right, what’s your name? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Carli.
-Carli...? \h\h-Lloyd.
-Carli, what’s your number? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Eight.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNumber 8. You had a mission out there.
-Can you remember what it was? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Medical bag.
-What about the medical bag? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Find it.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-And do what? -Nearest exit alternative.
\h\h\h\h\hOK, search. You need to search for it.
You need to look everywhere.
[coughs]
Keep searching. Search.
[coughs]
What about the package?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Rudy] Don’t touch your face, Eight!
Epic fail!
-Face the wind! \h\h-[groans]
That’s just a taste of chemical weapons.
Just a taste.
-Where’s the medical bag? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-I dropped it.
I dropped it. I was so close.
-That’s life-saving equipment. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yes, staff.
\h\h\h\hSoldiers, marines, wounded on the battlefield.
\hThat’s the difference between life and death.
Yes, staff.
You need to switch on, Number 8!
All right, let’s get over here \h\h\h\h\h\h\hon the cami net!
I was right there. I dropped the bag.
If I brought the bag, I would have passed.
[groans]
[bleep]
I held strong. Did you fail?
Fail? I [bleep] died in there. \h\h\hI couldn’t even get out.
That was some real [bleep], man.
-That’s some [bleep]. \h\h\h\h\h-[sighs]
People will fail on this course.
Some people will even allow that failure to consume them.
We’re looking for the people \h\h\h\hthat can bounce back
and learn from their failures.
\h\h\h\hDid you hit it hard, like hit the ground hard?
I hit the ground like a ton of bricks.
That’s when it went crazy.
\h\h\h\hTried to ram the door, almost tried to run Rudy over.
And I was... [laughs]
\h\h\hAnd these are going, "Mike’s wrestling a bear."
You were wrestling the invisible bear.
-I swear, it was crazy. \h\h\h\h\h-[all laugh]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Hannah] Well, you could tell you were, like,
fighting for your life, like...
[all laugh]
Number 4!
\h\h\h[narrator] The recruits who survived the morning task
get a breather.
[Carli] One scoop’s good. \h\h\h\h\h\hThank you.
[narrator] But for Number 4,
former Bachelorette \h\hHannah Brown...
-[Remi] Hurry up! -...it’s payback time.
They suffered earlier today. \h\h\hTime for you to suffer.
\h\hYou’re gonna go to the water tank,
you’re gonna get \hcompletely wet,
\hand you’re gonna get completely sandy.
\h\h\h\h\hIf you’re not fully covered in sand,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthen you will go get wet and sandy again.
-Yes, staff. \h-Let’s go.
-Clock has started. -[Billy] Climb out.
\h\h\h\hIt’s not bath time, it’s work time. Start rolling.
[Remi] Hurry up. Get on your feet!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] For the next two hours...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLet’s go. You gotta even out this side.
-...Number 4, Hannah Brown... \h\h\h\h-Hurry up. Run, run.
...will be doing hard labor \h\h\h\hin 105-degree heat.
Is it their fault that they have a medical condition? No.
But I wanna see how they react \h\h\h\h\hwhen we punish them.
That’s the purpose of all this.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Ooh, God. -Let’s go, let’s go. Come on.
[grunts]
Good job, Number 4. \h\h\h\h20 more to go.
We’re not eating enough calories.
\h\h[Gus] No, we’re not eating that much. We’ve had no sugar.
The most sugar has been fruit.
I have, like, ice cream \hevery night at home.
\h\hReally? You ever had the Sprinkles ice cream?
With the red velvet in it?
\h\h\h\h-Yes. -Oh, my God.
\hCinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Nut Cheerios.
Ooh!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Rudy] 16. Excellent in the gas chamber.
He just went "Boof!"
\h\h\hHe did, like, a perfect combat roll when he came out.
Like Superman with a ninja roll.
[Remi laughs] Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] The DS have gathered to discuss
the recruits’ performance \hon this morning’s task.
\h\h\hThey have concerns about one in particular.
We moved on to Number 8.
\h\h\h\hYeah, I’ve got a lot of fails on here
going through my docs.
Every time I look at her \h\h\h\h\h\hdoing a task,
it’s just her performance \h\h\h\h\h\his failing.
\h\h\hSo maybe we need to put some more spotlight on her.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI wonder if she really wants to be here.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDo you think she really wants to be here?
[Rudy] Roger.
[Remi] Number 8!
[Carli] I retired November 2021.
This course is the first time
\h\h\h\hI’m stepping back into the competitive arena.
\h\h\hI have softened since I’ve retired.
I believe I’m gonna find out \h\h\h\h\hmy breaking point.
[Remi] All right, Carli Lloyd.
The midfield that delivered \h\h\h\hthe winning goals
in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics \h\h\h\hto win the gold.
-What a glorious career. \h-Yeah, man, legend.
\h\h[Rudy] We’re not getting that level of performance here.
Sit.
[sighs]
Relax.
Well, shall we get \h\hstraight to it?
You’ve failed the majority of the individual tasks so far.
\h\h\h\h\h\hWhy do you feel you’ve failed these tasks?
I feel like I’m just, like, \h\h\h\htrying to survive it.
Do you think this self-doubt \h\h\h\h\h\h\hhas to do with
things that you’ve dealt with \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the past?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI would... Yeah, I would agree with that.
When I started working with a personal coach,
\h\h\hit was like being taught to become numb, emotionless...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah. -...which then led into my life
off the field.
And pushed my family out.
\h\h\hWe didn’t speak for about 12 years.
Wow.
How has that affected you?
-Um, they suffered, I suffered. -[Remi] Yeah.
I missed out on weddings, \h\h\h\hbirthdays, holidays.
\h\h\h\h\hLiterally everything. They missed out on my wedding.
I didn’t feel anything.
The plan was for me to become \h\h\hthe best in the world,
and I accomplished everything \h\h\hI wanted to accomplish
in the soccer world.
But it was freaking hard, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthough.
We can relate with that \h\h\h\h\h\hfor sure.
To be the best in extremity, you really have to ignore
and compartmentalize \h\heverything else,
and the ones that love you \hend up paying the price.
Yeah.
You need to take control
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand shift into that mental toughness muscle
\hthat you utilized to get to where you are.
-Get back to that gear. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mm-hm.
\hMy advice to you is to harness that
and apply it to the next task,
’cause you’re about to go \h\h\hinto a battlefield.
-And that’s all I can say. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.
Guard!
Thanks, staff.
\hI feel like I’m on an island fighting by myself to survive.
Every day.
Step up. Walk.
[Carli] I have never folded \h\h\h\h\h\h\hunder pressure.
I do not wanna fold under pressure here.
[Hannah] OK, what’d they say?
[Carli] Yeah, they just, like, \h\h\hasked me about the tasks
and why I’ve not passed.
It’s just the pass/fail [bleep], you know?
[Gus] I know, but if you fail it but you tried it,
and you learn from it, \hthat’s still a pass.
-That’s a win. \h\h\h\h-Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI just feel like they just expected me to keep...
you know, and that I haven’t, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand that sucks.
Recruits! Parade square! \hEveryone full gear!
[Rudy] We’ve got three days
to throw everything we have
at these recruits.
\h\h\h\hMake them face battlefield conditions.
Combat is no joke.
We’re going for a nice run.
On me. Let’s go.
\h\h\h\h\hLet’s see which of these recruits has it inside
to keep going forward.
[Remi] Keep up.
[narrator] In the next task \h\h\h\h\hof the phase...
-You guys better keep up. -...recruits will be faced
\h\hwith the most confronting combat exercise of selection.
Come on, Five!
\h\h\hBut following the gassing drill,
\h\h\h\hNumber 5, baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza,
\h\h\h\his struggling to keep up the pace.
-[breathing heavily] -[Rudy] Go, go, go!
Grit! Finish strong, Five!
-You gotta want it! -[Billy] Last effort.
[Remi] Hurry up. Run, run, run.
\hSpecial operations, we work in small teams.
We work deep behind enemy lines.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIf we are hit, no one’s coming to save us.
You use violence and aggression.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou fight through the enemy’s assault.
\hThis tasker here is called milling.
It’s designed to do one thing:
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto gauge pure, raw, warrior spirit.
Two opponents will line up, \h\h\h\hface each other,
with gloves, headgear and mouth guard, and they will fight.
They will punch straight and they will punch hard,
\h\hand they will aggress and aggress and aggress.
\hEven if the man or woman does go down, you continue punching.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou do not stop till I give you the command.
Remember, it’s not the size \hof the dog in the fight,
\h\h\h\h\h\hit’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Fighting your fellow recruits \h\h\h\his the ultimate ask.
We don’t get a chance to choose our enemy.
\h\h\hYou have to do what you have to do,
and that is to fight and to win.
16, DS Remi.
13, DS Billy.
Come to me. All right, big man. This is it now.
Attack. Be aggressive.
\hDon’t be dancing like Muhammad Ali.
This is where I wanna see plenty of aggression, right?
I wanna see your arms going \h\h\h\hlike bees’ wings.
Punch straight through him.
\h\hIf he goes down, you go down with him
\h\h\h\huntil you hear the command "Stop."
I don’t really wanna \h\h\h\hfight anyone.
’Cause I don’t wanna get angry.
The times I’ve gotten angry,
\h\h\h\hI’ve done things that I shouldn’t have done.
And I feel like fighting \h\h\his not the answer.
\h\h\h\h[Danny] I’m not gonna punch somebody for no reason,
but if it’s a competition, \h\h\h\h\hlet’s get it on.
Protect yourself at all cost.
13, on me, here. \h16, over here.
-Are we clear on instructions? \h\h\h\h-[both] Yes, staff.
\h[Rudy] Bite down on the mouthpiece.
When I say fight, you fight.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Fight! -[Billy] Get in there!
\h\h\h\h-[Rudy] Punch! -[Billy] Take him out!
-[Remi] Off the head! \h\h\h-[Rudy] Punch!
[Billy] Take him, 13! Punch him! Take him out! Take him out!
\h\h\h\h\h-[Remi] That’s it. -[Billy] Hit him! Take him out!
-[Rudy] Go, go! Go! -[Billy] Hit him!
[Billy] It’s not dancing! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGet up!
\h[Rudy] Punch! Punch! Let go of his head! Let go of his head!
[Billy] Get him off! \h\h\h\hGet him off!
-[Rudy] Hit the body! \h\h\h\h-[Billy] Go!
-[Rudy] Hit the body! -[Billy] Hit him!
[Rudy] Fight!
Punch! Punch! Hit the body!
\h\h\h[narrator] Almost one foot taller
and 80 pounds heavier,
Number 13, Dwight Howard,
is taking on Number 16, \h\h\h\hDanny Amendola,
in a brutal combat exercise.
\h\h\h\hThe battle’s not over till the enemy is defeated.
\h\h\h\h\h-[Rudy] Stop! -[Billy] Stop! Listen!
-Reset! Over here! -[Billy] Stand up!
\h\h\h\h[Rudy] In real warfare, you could have a limb missing.
You could be on fire.
[Billy] On your feet, 13.
You must continue to attack.
[Rudy] Fight!
-Straight punching! -[Billy] Take him out!
[Rudy] Fight! Let’s go! Go! Go!
[Remi] Body, body, body!
-[Billy] Stop hugging him! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Stop! Stop!
Back up. Quickly, on me!
\h\h\h\hHands up! Ready? Straight punches! Fight!
If you land more punches,
or you drop your opponent to the ground more often,
that doesn’t mean that you win.
\h\h\h\h\hThe winner is who possesses and shows
the rage, the violence,
\h\h\h\h\h\hto continue on even after being hit hard.
Through shots! Fight! Go!
No kicking!
Stop!
[Billy] Go and stand over there.
16! Winner! Back to your cohort.
It’s about punching, 13. Punches straight forward.
Get over there. Don’t talk back!
Eight to DS Billy. \h\hFour, DS Remi.
\h\h\h\h\h[narrator] Next to face each other...
...are Number 8, pro soccer \h\h\hplayer Carli Lloyd...
...and Number 4, former \hBachelorette Hannah Brown.
[Billy] Go for it. Take her out.
[narrator] The DS want to see \hif Number 8 can rebound
and win a task...
...after a string of failures.
I’ve never been in a fight. \hI’ve never hit somebody.
My pain tolerance \h\his pretty high.
I sort of have a sick obsession with the feeling of pain.
[Billy] Do not see mist, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hall right?
Don’t be nervous. Take a deep breath.
Do what you need to do.
I’m going to try my hardest to be here till the very end.
-OK? -OK.
I want to win.
\h\h\h\hHard and strong. Bite down on your mouthpiece.
Get in your ready stance.
Fight!
Hard! Hard shots! Hard shots!
Go! Go! Go!
\h\h\h\hBody, body, body! That’s it! Let’s go, Eight!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWork the ribs! Hit the body! Hit the body!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Good, Number Eight! Stop!
Get up, get up. On your feet.
\h\h\h\hWe’re going one more. Get in the warrior mindset!
Fight! Body! Body!
\h\h\hLet’s go, Four! Keep punching! Punch!
[narrator] Number 8, Carli, \hoverpowers Number 4, Hannah.
[Rudy] And up.
Here, Eight. Here, Four.
\h\h\h\hI just needed to hit rock bottom, reset myself...
I’m sorry about that.
...and then get to work.
Five, DS Billy. Ten, DS Remi.
[narrator] Last to fight, with an age difference of 23 years,
\h\h\hNumber 5, Mike Piazza, and Number 10, Gus Kenworthy.
[Mike] I’ve been in fistfights before,
but you still have to have \h\h\h\h\ha strategy.
You can’t just explode \h\h\h\h\hwith no plan.
-How does that feel? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Good.
I have been in a fight,
and I have punched somebody \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the face.
I wouldn’t like getting hit \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the face,
\h\h\h\h\hso I don’t know what that would end up making me do.
Go through him, go through him, go through him. OK?
If he goes down, go down with him.
Controlled but aggressive. \h\hUntil you hear "Stop."
\hFive, you’re clear on your instruction?
Fight!
[Billy] Take him out! Punch him! Come on!
\h\h\h\h\h-[Rudy] Go, Five! -Get him, Number Five! Head up!
[Rudy] That’s it!
Body shots! Body shots!
\h[Mike] I do worry that my mental toughness
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwill take me past my limitations physically.
Don’t dance with him! Fight him!
\h\h-[Rudy] That’s it! -[Remi] Go over there!
On your feet.
[Rudy] Let’s go, Five!
[Billy] Use those big arms now.
Here we go. Get it up! Come on!
[Rudy] Hands up!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Fight! -[Billy] Take him out now!
[Rudy] Who wants it?
That’s it! Punch!
Give it to him! I’ve seen more aggression in the flower show!
\h\h\h\h\h-Come on! -[Rudy] Who wants it?
-[Billy] Take him, Five! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Fight!
\h\h\h\h-[Billy] Take him! -[Rudy] Fight! Body shots!
[Billy] Take him! Take him! \h\h\h\h\h\h\hLaunch him!
[Rudy] Who wants it? \h\h\h\hWho wants it?
Ten! Fight!
Stop!
[Mike grunts]
-[breathes heavily] \h\h\h-Get back over.
[Billy] You’ve had a rumble round the sand and nothing else. Get your heads up.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Get on. -[Billy] Get back, over there.
[laughs]
[breathes heavily]
[sighs]
[Carli] How’s your eye? \h\h\h\hIs it hurting?
\h\h\h\h[Mike] A little bit. \h\h\hFor the first time, I thought about quitting.
-Really? \h-Yeah.
You’re not gonna, though, are you?
I’ve proved everything \h\hI wanted to prove.
\hI mean, it’s tough to get out of your head
once you think about giving up, you know.
Yeah. It’s started to creep in?
Yeah, on the way back, I was kind of like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know what, I said I wasn’t gonna quit,
but it’s a young man’s game, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know?
[narrator] After completing the last task of the phase,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthe DS discuss the recruits’ performance.
\h\h\h[Rudy] Eight’s been our problem child for a bit.
She’s failing tasks over and over again.
And in the milling, we paired \hher up against Number 4,
and it started out very even,
\h\h\h\hbut then eventually Eight started pushing harder.
Best day of the course \h\h\h\hfor her today.
We’ve actually seen \h\h\h\ha new person.
Yeah, she needed the reset. \h\h\h\hShe got the reset.
\hSo let’s see. All right, Number 5, running up there.
\h\h\hYou could tell he wasn’t keen on it.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mmm. -You know what I mean?
Probably ’cause of his age.
He’s knackered.
-He’s exhausted. \h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.
Let’s bring in Five.
He’s on the edge.
Let’s see how much he has left.
-Number 5! -I’m Five.
\h\h\h-Yes, sir, coming. -All right, at the gate.
Staff.
[Rudy] Throughout the course,
every recruit will face
their limitations \h\hand weaknesses,
\h\hbut it’s important for them to understand
\hthat their mind will take them so much further than their body.
Walk forward.
\h\h\h\hYou are now the oldest recruit left.
Yes, sir.
\hSo how do you think you’ve been performing?
Of course I feel tired.
You don’t wanna be a hindrance \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto the team.
Especially in sports, you know.
Don’t quit, don’t quit, \h\h\h\hdon’t quit,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut of course when you are a liability,
you become a liability \h\h\h\h\hto the squad,
\hand then you realize that you may have to...
-Let me pause you for a second. -Yes, sir.
What’s going on?
I’m starting to feel a little discouraged,
for lack of a better word.
[Remi] Are you over this?
\hI’m disappointed that I’m not grasping the tasks and skills,
and maybe psyching myself out \h\h\ha little bit too much.
It’s hard for you \hto get to that 100%.
I wanna see it through.
\h\h\h\hReally embrace it. Think about your kids now.
\h\h\h[Remi] Your kids \h\hhave never got a chance to see you play pro ball.
But they’re gonna be able \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto watch you
go through this course.
I mean, the last words my daughter said to me,
she goes, "You got this, Dad. \h\h\h\hYou’ve got this."
[Remi] Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-[exhales] -Let it... Let it out.
Yes. Yes, staff. Thank you.
At the end of the day, though,
\h\h\h\hwe want top performance in everything across the board.
That is true, and I’m gonna continue. I appreciate it.
\h\h\h\h\hI will press forward and try to dig down deeper.
[Rudy] Guard!
[Mike] I always think, \h\h\h\has an athlete,
you have to find ways to motivate yourself.
Don’t let up. Don’t give up.
\h\h\h\h\hKeep going. Keep trying to get better.
\h\h\h\h\h\h[Carli] Mike, you sticking it through?
Yeah. I had a little bit of a moment of weakness.
-I think we all have. -Pulled out of it.
-Feeling sorry for myself. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mmm.
DS on the way. DS on the way.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-DS on the way. -[Carli] No, he’s working out.
-No, he working out. \h\h\h\h-Oh, my bad.
\h\h\h\h-Do not look at him. -[Dwight] Don’t look at him.
[Carli] Don’t look at him.
\h\h\hWhat’s he training for, The Terminator on that thing?
[all laugh]
"I’ll be back."
\h\h\h[Gus] Oh, my God, I just wanna go to sleep.
We know you’re tired. Everybody’s tired.
But when the chips are down,
some people will fall \h\h\hby the wayside.
No 13!
On the parade square, OK?
\h-Yes, staff. -Let’s nail it.
\h\h\h\h[Billy] The recruits have to keep it together,
remain focused, and be prepared to expect the unexpected.
[Mike] Put this on.
\h\h\h\h[whispers] Go ahead. Go push it. Push it, push it.
Hurry up.
Today was about resilience.
\hWhat’s happening now is that you’re becoming
better versions of yourself.
\h\h\h\hShared suffering, tasks bigger than one person,
and of course the unknown.
So tonight get some good rest.
We have more training tomorrow,
and it’s gonna be \htougher and tougher.
Come out in front.
Turn around.
\h\hWhy are the rest of your team gonna do 20 press-ups right now?
Because I don’t have \h\h\hmy armband on.
[Billy] Well spotted.
Down you go.
Number 5, you call ’em out. Go.
\h-Down, up, one. -[recruits] One.
\h-Down, up, two. -[recruits] Two.
-Down, up, three. -[recruits] Three.
-Down, up, four. -[recruits] Four.
-Down, up, five. -[recruits] Five.
\h\hIf one recruit makes a mistake...
-Down, up, 14. -[recruits] 14.
-Down, up, 15. -[recruits] 15.
...we punish everyone.
\h\h-Down, up. -[recruits] 16
-Down, up. -[recruits] 17.
-Down, up. -[recruits] 18.
-Down, up. -[recruits] 19.
-Down, up. -[recruits] 20.
On your feet. Up!
[Rudy] If the individual \h\h\h\h\h\hbreaks down,
the team breaks down.
If the team breaks down, \h\hthe mission is lost.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-Got it? -[recruits] Yes, staff.
Look after each other. It’s not his fault.
You should have all taken care \h\h\h\hof that. All right?
When I say go, disappear. Go!
Sorry. Guys, I’m sorry.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-It’s my fault. -[Danny] It’s all right, buddy.
-[Dwight] That’s my bad. -[Carli] We didn’t check.
-[Hannah] It’s fine. \h\h\h\h\h\h-[bleep]
[sighs]
These guys never let up.
[Gus] Today was the most \hphysical day, I think.
That gas was so gnarly.
\hThere’s nothing more sad than someone who’s chasing something
that you know is not there.
[indistinct conversation]
I never wanted to be that guy at the disco
\hthat when the lights go on, they’re telling you to go home.
[narrator] Next time...
Go!
\h\h[Rudy] During selection, the course only gets harder.
If you don’t get out of there, \h\h\h\hyou’re gonna die.
-Come on! -Come on, H!
Against all odds, you must prevail.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Is he OK? -Got an emergency patient.
-I’m gonna need an ambulance. \h\h\h\h-[Dwight] Oh, my God.
[siren wails]
Write what you want to say when you don’t come home.
"I love all my children. \hI wanna see you again."
[sobs]